I don't mind if I do | Silhouette Cameo

Hello all, can you believe it's April?.. I  certainly can't believe how fast the months are flying by, it's certainly a scary thought. Well today I decided to share my latest card with you, what with the spring weather coming soon (let's hope!) and of course the summer coming soon, I thought let's design a fun and summery card. These drinks could be milkshake (I've not had one of those since I was kid) or soda maybe...I could just do with a orange soda, why is it that I can't not say orange soda without thinking of the Kenan and Kel show, when Kel says "who loves orange soda?" it still makes me laugh even today.

On with the card, started with A2 (US) size card folded to the left, I cut out stitched rectangle on the Silhouette Cameo using PL 200gsm white card, cut three drinks containers using coloured linen card a die cut element from Silhouette store, next applied a little distress inks (in the colours of the drinks) on the edges of the drink containers using a small piece of cut and dry foam.

Applied a piece of fun foam to the back of stitched rectangle using double sided tape and adding double sided tape to other side so I could adhere the matt to the card blank. Glued the three drinks containers down using zig fine glue pen and making sure they were aligned correctly. In laid the coloured hearts in the drinks containers with the same zig fine glue pen. 

Next I took strip of tracing paper (this is inexpensive alternative to vellum and works just as good) rub over with cornflour in pop sock to act as anti static and stamped "It's your day" using CB mini messages and perfect medium ink pad with acrylic block. Poured over with wow clear gloss regular embossing powder and heat set with heat tool.  Attached the strip to the card by adding a little glue dot to the back of the word your and affixing the two ends onto the back of the card with scotch magic tape. 

Added a few sequins in the same colour scheme as the drink containers, adhere them glue dots micro dots and finally for the finishing I added a little of the clear wink of stella to each of the hearts.   

I thought I'd share clip of the show I was talking about early in the post, watching this brought back memories of watching this on BBC Live and Kicking on Saturday morning...what bliss!!

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I thought this card would suit that awkward age, say teenager girl don't you think?

Just For Easter | Silhouette Cameo

Hello all, well with Easter just around the corner nearly I'd thought that shared with you what I've made for my friend's grandchildren. I wanted something that was spring like and used the spring colour scheme.

On with the card, started with A2 (US size) tent fold card, using the silhouette cameo software I created stitched rectangle that I then cut out with green linen card using cameo and attached some funky foam to the back of the stitched rectangle with double sided tape, then adhere the matt to the card blank with the same double sided tape.   

Again using a tag from the silhouette store, I added "Happy" to the bottom right of the tag and cut out using yellow linen card using the cameo, next I cut two ovals to act as Easter eggs also cut cameo using blue and pink linen card. Next used my Homemade stamping tool I stamped the eggs with bold diagonal stripes rubber stamp by MFT, using perfect medium and poured over Wow clear gloss embossing powder and heat set with heat tool.

Then stamped Easter from the Clearly Besotted Mini Messages stamps with Versafine onyx black ink pad and poured over the same Wow clear gloss embossing powder and heat set with heat tool. To assemble the card, I tied some wax cord to the top of tag and applied some double sided foam tape to the back of the tag and placed on the card just to bottom right of the card.
(Top tip for embossing is to use ladies pop sock with some cornflour inside and tie a knot at the top, this makes a inexpensive version to anti static bag)

Adhering the two eggs to just above the "Happy" using double sided tape and finally adding a few clear enamel dots and adhering them with Zig fine glue gel, this is where the reverse tweezers and the pokey tool comes in handy lol. ( The clear enamel dots, I created by squeezing some Anita's 3D gloss gel on brown craft mat and peel them off when they're fully dry.)   As you can see I made two of the same cards for the children in question. I don't usually make two of the same cards but thought on this occasion it would save time. 

I decided to whip up some Easter treats for them as well, So I remember what I use to make near Easter when I was child, so made some chocolate cornflake cakes...oh it did bring some memories back for me that's for sure. 

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DIY Alcohol Marker Storage On Budget

Hello all, well I'm back today to share with you my DIY alcohol marker storage on budget, we all have these markers in our craft stash and I am lucky to have full set of Spectrum Noir pens, but as you can imagine it's not exactly easy to store them. I'd been storing them originally in three cardboard shoe boxes, but it was really taking up to much space within my craft space, as I don't currently have a room that is just for crafting, mine is bedroom that is also craft area. So I need things that a space saving, I'd done my research for marker storage online to buy, but just couldn't get my budget to stretch. So I set about looking for alternative that would suit my budget.  

The idea came to me when I was looking for inexpensive storage box for tidying my craft space and had one of those lightbulb moments (yay!) that I could took turn one of these boxes into my very own marker storage. So I decided to purchase one and see if it would work, even better the box only costed £5 so I was so please, even if it didn't work it would not of been wasted as I could use it for storage purposes.  

I thought to myself how am I going to create the shelves, mmmm I thought, this is gonna be tricky a one!!. But yet again I'd had another light bulb moment to use Amazon packaging, we had have tons of these boxes hanging around or ready to be recycled (from craft purchase's lol). So I cut down several pieces of the packaging to fit inside the box, and affixed them in place with re-forced tape, as this is slightly stronger tape which you need for something like this.       

I worked out that thirteen markers would comfortably fitted across, So got out my calculator (as I'm not the best at maths lol) and worked out I needed thirteen rows of shelves to fit the full set of 168 pens. But I decided to add an extra shelf for luck, so I could house some spare pens and nibs. I still have space too, if the Spectrum Noir markers extend their colour range. 

So from a simple inexpensive storage box into the very handy table top marker storage, that will just sit perfectly on my craft desk and make finding my pen colours a whole lot easier than before. Plus create more space for my other craft stuff, so it's a win win all round!. 

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Store Twenty One Rose Storage Box

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